2007

12/18/2007STScI-2007-452.Mars: Closest Approach 2007
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 55 million miles – 88 million kilometers – away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures... (More)

2003

8/27/2003STScI-2003-224.Mars: Closest Encounter
These two images, taken 11 hours apart with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal two nearly opposite sides of Mars. Hubble snapped these photos as the red planet was making its closest approach... (More)

1999

6/30/1999STScI-1999-277.A Closer Encounter with Mars
Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. (More)

3/20/1997STScI-1997-0914.Hubble's Sharpest View of Mars
The recently refurbished Hubble telescope obtained the sharpest view of Mars ever taken from Earth. This stunning portrait was taken with March 10... (More)

1995

11/29/1995STScI-1995-4916.HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995
Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe in dramatic, unprecedented pictures of celestial objects. Like a traveler sharing... (More)

3/21/1995STScI-1995-1617.Hubble Monitors Weather on Neighboring Planets
What's the weather for Mars and Venus? The Hubble telescope has given astronomers a peek. The telescope is serving as an interplanetary weather satellite for studying the climate... (More)

1991

5/30/1991STScI-1991-1118.Mars, Three-color Composite
Exposures taken through separate red, green, and blue filters and used to create a color image of Mars (lower right). The red filter shows the best surface detail. Because Mars' atmosphere scatters... (More)